New technologies have been a key driver of labor market change in recent decades. There
are renewed concerns that technological developments in areas such as robotics and …

China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of
world trade. Simultaneously, it has challenged much of the received empirical wisdom about …

This paper assesses different econometric approaches to working with count-based
outcome variables and other outcomes with similar distributions, which are increasingly …

We use detailed administrative data to study the adjustment of local labor markets to
industrial robots in Germany. Robot exposure, as predicted by a shift-share variable, is …

Economic theory suggests that market economies are likely to underprovide innovation
because of the public good nature of knowledge. Empirical evidence from the United States …

To promote cleaner production, China launched nation-wide Cleaner Production Audit
(CPA) program in 2004. This study examines the “weak” version of the Porter hypothesis …

We study the effects of industrial robots on US labor markets. We show theoretically that
robots may reduce employment and wages and that their local impacts can be estimated …

We investigate the impact of globalization on electoral outcomes in 15 Western European
countries over 1988–2007. We employ both official election results at the district level and …

Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of US politics? Analyzing
multiple measures of political expression and results of congressional and presidential …

We show that support for the Leave option in the Brexit referendum was systematically
higher in regions hit harder by economic globalization. We focus on the shock of surging …